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Raghbir Singh Pathania, British Indian officer who served and was killed in World War I [99] Dalpat Singh, son of Thakur Hari Singh Shekhawat, was a British Indian officer, known as the "Hero of Haifa" for his actions in the Battle of Haifa during World War I. [100] Hanut Singh, British Indian officer, son of Pratap Singh of Idar, served in ...
The history of India up to (and including) the times of the Buddha, with his life generally placed into the 6th or 5th century BCE, is a subject of a major scholarly debate. The vast majority of historians in the Western world accept the theory of Aryan Migration with c. 1500-1200 BCE dates for the displacement of Indus civilization by Aryans ...
This is a list of famous and notable people from Madhya Pradesh, India. [1] This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is based on the extent of their popularity. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.
Gama was given land and monthly pension by the government and supported his medical expenses until his death. [31] He died in Lahore , Pakistan on 23 May 1960 after a period of illness. Kulsoom Nawaz , politician and wife of Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif , was the granddaughter of Gama.
Silk Road and Spice trade, ancient trade routes that linked India with the Old World; carried goods and ideas between the ancient civilisations of the Old World and India. The land routes are marked as red, and the water routes are marked as blue. The spice trade in Kerala attracted traders from all over the Old World to India.
The Vishakanya (Sanskrit: विषकन्या IAST: Viṣakanyā) were young women reportedly used as assassins, often against powerful enemies, during the times of Ancient India. [1] Their blood and bodily fluids were purportedly poisonous to other humans, as was mentioned in the ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, Arthashastra ...
Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, lit. ' Menander the Saviour '; Pali: Milinda), sometimes called Menander the Great, [4] [5] was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165 /155 [6] –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia.
Following is a list of famous and notable Punjabi people, an ethnic group belonging to the Punjab region.It contains people mainly from what is today Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and people with Punjabi ancestry or people who speak Punjabi as their primary language.